Its a long story. I will start by explaining that we had test fit the motor with the tub in place but not the body. We then cleaned up the headers and ceramic coated and then wrapped them. Currently we have the body on to rough fit panels, pipes, roll bar and the like. We intend to pull the body to do some sanding on it and finalize the chassis and start the motor. Guess most Hurricane owners know that the pass side of the car is shorter (front to back) than driver side. The drivers side sidepipe mounted perfectly, the passenger side however did not want to line up with the header with out moving the body opening forward (almost completely to the wheel opening). To keep the body opening looking somewhat symmetrical we needed to move the pipe to the rear and transition to hit the flange on the header. The cleanest solution I could come up with was to re do the sweeps on the sidepipes instead 90 deg, it needed to be closer to 80 deg. Not a lot of difference to notice side to side.
The next problem coming up with custom mandrel bent 2" pipes, I thought that would be easy (it's not) benders either won't do it, charge huge setup fees or are willing but don't have the dies to do the right radius. Back to the drawing board.
Going back to the 90 deg sweeps and will have to make the transition in the distance from the inside of the body to the header flange.
And yes, I know it might have been easier to modify the header.
Photo is the starting point on the rebuild, I am calculating the offset so we can take the set back out of the length and have the pipe look right side to side. (if you thinking to your self "this guy has OCD" your not far off)
Mark
